What is the Denver II?
The Denver II is one of the longest-standing developmental screens in paediatric practice. First published as the Denver Developmental Screening Test and restandardised in 1992, it gives clinicians a quick way to check whether a child's development is tracking within the typical range from birth through about six years.
How it is structured
It covers four areas — Gross Motor, Fine Motor-Adaptive, Language, and Personal-Social. Each item is a behaviour with a normative age range showing when most children attain it, so a child's progress can be read against a well-established age band.
How Learning Curve represents it
The Denver II is a proprietary instrument, so Learning Curve holds none of its actual test items. What appears here are plain-language descriptions of the behaviours each area screens for, written by Learning Curve and grounded in the published Denver structure and age windows, with attribution to Frankenburg and colleagues. It is used as a normative reference point — one more independent voice on when a behaviour typically appears — not as a reproduction of the test.